title: The ambiguities of loyalty.
abstract: Loyalty is a complex notion. Recognizing moments of loyalty in nursing can encourage pride in the profession and thereby assist in elevating nursing as a profession. If nurses can appreciate the complexities involved in loyalty, this knowing might assist them in understanding personal struggles with loyalty when they arise and may also help in the understandings-misunderstandings that can occur when a breach of loyalty is felt. In this column, this complexity is discussed. Loyalty as a part of living quality is also highlighted in that loyalty is always choosing value priorities in co-creating living quality. Furthermore, the principles of humanbecoming are used as a guide to teaching-learning as well as recognizing loyalty in the nursing profession.
authors.affiliation: Professor of Nursing, Briar Cliff University.
authors.forename: Barbara Backer
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Condon
mesh_terms: D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing; D010558:Personnel Loyalty
keywords: Parse; betrayal; living quality; loyalty; teaching-learning